Writing Skills category: 1537 books

This octogenarian author has followed up her last book, An Old Ladys Confessions, with an old lady sequel in which she shares her writing experience with aspiring writers. The book covers tools, space, health, planning, working habits, and writing tips. She gives advice on writing novels, mysteries,...

All about writing - a guide for writers and those thinking about writing to getting started, developing characters and plot, the writing process, editing and what to do when the book is finished. Inside you'll find:* The writer's commandments* The ideas generator* Developing a genuinely...

How would you like to perform with the passion of an Oscar winning actor, compete with the drive and fervor of an Olympic athlete, or teach like you’ve got a Nobel Prize slung around your neck all while doing your homework? Believe it or not, you can do all of this and much more in the course of...

Struggling to start your story or lost in the middle? You need a Story Pitch. A standard pitch is meant for marketing and selling, but a Story Pitch is a powerful tool meant to be used when pre-writing and writing. It can help you jumpstart your novel, screenplay, comic, or whatever type of...

For several decades Jack Matthews distributed a photocopied version of this guide to students in his fiction writing classes at Ohio University. A Worker's Writebook offers insight about how successful writers mold raw experiences into a story and how language helps you to do that. It offers good...

More about writing – a sequel to Project December and another guide for writers and those thinking about writing to getting started… again, developing characters and plot, the writing process, editing and what to do when the book is finished. Inside you’ll find:•The A to Z of writing•How...

Free 30-day email training series for online entrepreneurs - get my top 30 copywriting tips to help you find your voice, gather your tribe and turn your online words to gold (or money.) -> www.leahmarjoriecox.com/30-day-writing-challenge/ (just copy and paste into your browser) Finding it freakin’...

Need to write more words? Want to double your word count? Now you can. Thanks to my QC (Quicker and Clearer) Writing System. To pay off mounting debts, I had agreed to ghost-write a series of books. Problem is, I'd written non-fiction books, but I'd never finished a novel in...

Before you write a website, you need to know how to write for the web… Because, trust me when I say: it's different than writing for any other medium. It's not as simple as writing 1,000 words and clicking 'Publish.' You need to make sure you're web-proofing your site with copy search engines...

Writer on the Side is a time management, positive thinking, long-term goal creating, personal effectiveness improving, success manual for the author wannabe trapped in a 9 to 5 (or some other exceptionally long time-frame) line of work. Just because you have to pay the bills does not mean that you...

“A necessary manual for those interested in the perpetuation, and the possibilities, of good English prose.”—Harper’s Magazine “[Lanham’s] style is notable for its audacity, liveliness, and grace.”—The Times Literary Supplement “The most applicably provocative book...

A revised and expanded second volume of award-winning author and screenwriter Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tricks For Authors workbook, with a special emphasis on writing love. Screenwriting is a compressed and dynamic storytelling form and the techniques of screenwriting are easily adaptable...

With more than a hundred published novels and more than seventeen million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith knows how to outline. And he knows how to write a novel without an outline. In this WMG Writer’s Guide, Dean takes you step-by-step through...

Five stars for Tell It Slant ... An enlightening, comprehensive, and very satisfying text on writing and shaping creative nonfiction." --Sheila Bender, editor and publisher of writingitreal.com and author of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "Tell...